[HPforGrownups] Home-Schooling in the Wizard World (long)

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 127512

Greenfirespike wrote:
>After following several wonderful threads from the past week, a
>question began to reemerge regarding education within the WW.  Are
>any wizards home-schooled?  If this at all interests you, please

JKR is of the view that junior school age children are mainly educated at
home, so it's clearly part of the culture for it to happen at that age.

But there is another option over and above the ones that you mention, and it
starts from the question: what do young people in the WW need to know in
order to live their lives?

They need the relevant domestic magical knowledge to live in a magical home,
and I'd suggest that they get it at home. Where Muggleborns get it I don't
know: there's no suggestion that Hermione and the other Muggleborns have
extra classes in basic survival. Maybe they have an extra book on their
lists called "Welcome to the Wizarding World: a Guide for Newcomers" or
something like that.

And they also need to know the things that they will use to make their
living. There is a school of thought that those children who don't need the
specific skills in magic that the Hogwarts curriculum offers, get their
education by apprenticeship, that there is a specific set of
charms/potions/spells that relate to being a miner, a farmer, a wandmaker,
or whatever - once you know those, you are set up for life and don't really
_need_ to know about Goblin rebellions or care of Mandrakes.

Cheers

Ffred

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